Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Mike Braun has won the Indiana governor’s race. He defeated Democrat Jennifer McCormick and extended the GOP’s 20-year-hold on the state’s top office. Braun is the wealthy founder of a national auto parts distribution business. He will succeed outgoing Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, who is term-limited. He told supporters
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Frederica Wilson won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Florida on Tuesday. The 24th District, located in South Florida, covers much of eastern Miami-Dade County and includes a small piece of southern Broward County. It is among Florida’s most racially diverse districts, as more than one-third of the voting-age population is Black
Continue ReadingRepublican Mark Messmer won election to a U.S. House seat representing Indiana on Tuesday. The former Indiana state Senate majority leader defeated Democrat Erik Hurt, an Evansville movie theater manager. Messmer resigned from his state Senate post in September to focus on winning the seat vacated by retiring seven-term U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon. Messmer campaigned
Continue ReadingRepublican Rep. Gus Bilirakis won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Florida on Tuesday. The 12th District falls along the Gulf Coast, just north of Tampa Bay and covers part of the region struck by consecutive hurricanes last month. Bilirakis has served in the House since 2007. Prior to that, he was a member
Continue ReadingBy Kareem Khadder and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A series of Israeli raids and airstrikes in towns and villages in the occupied West Bank that stretched overnight from Monday into late Tuesday have killed at least eight people, according to Palestinian authorities and local residents. Two Palestinians were killed in the town of
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AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams have traded cornerback Tre’Davious White to the Baltimore Ravens, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the teams were still completing the deal. The Rams get a seventh-round pick in 2026 while
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Democrat U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, of Connecticut, has won a fourth term, defeating former Republican state Sen. George Logan in a rematch. Republicans had hoped to flip the blue state’s 5th Congressional District and end the Democrats’ control of the delegation. Hayes defeated Logan on Tuesday. Logan portrayed himself as an independent thinker
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A voter filed a lawsuit against a county in ruby-red West Virginia calling for a special election after just under 700 people cast erroneous ballots that omitted the name of a Democratic state senate candidate. Mingo County voter James Williamson and the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia
Continue ReadingGLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — A funeral was held for Tito Jackson at the same Southern California cemetery where his brother Michael Jackson and his father Joe Jackson are buried. Family and friends gathered Monday to mourn the singer and guitarist for the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, about
Continue ReadingGLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — A funeral was held for Tito Jackson at the same Southern California cemetery where his brother Michael Jackson and his father Joe Jackson are buried. Family and friends gathered Monday to mourn the singer and guitarist for the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, about
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani has surgery to repair his shoulder after partially dislocating it during the World Series.
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer Marshon Lattimore, Za’Darius Smith, Mike Williams, Preston Smith and Tre’Davious White were sent to winning teams. Jonathan Mingo and Khalil Herbert are going to a place where they’ll play more. NFL teams, especially contenders, were active before Tuesday’s trade deadline at 4 p.m. EST. The NFC East-leading Commanders made a move to
Continue ReadingWAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) — A judge in a rural Virginia city has ordered two officials there to certify the results of the election. The pair filed a lawsuit last month threatening not to certify unless they could hand-count the ballots. The Monday order comes after five registered voters in Waynesboro filed their own lawsuit claiming
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Republican Deb Fischer has won a third term representing Nebraska in the U.S. Senate. Fischer won her previous two elections by wide margins in the deeply conservative state. But she faced her toughest challenge yet in Dan Osborn, a working-class industrial mechanic and military veteran who appealed to voters
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska voters have enshrined the state’s current ban on abortion after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the state’s constitution. Voters on Tuesday also rejected a competing ballot measure that would have established the right to have an abortion until the point that a fetus could viably survive
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska 2nd House District contest proved again to be the state’s most competitive, pitting Republican incumbent Don Bacon against Democratic state Sen. Tony Vargas in a rematch from 2022. The race remained tight hours after polls closed. Two years ago, Bacon won with 51% of the vote. This time,
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of U.S. Navy officers, federal prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino also ordered Francis to pay $20 million in restitution to the Navy
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A jury has found an Alabama man not guilty of killing an 11-year New Hampshire girl more than 35 years ago. The case came down to whether the jury believed DNA found under Melissa Ann Tremblay’s fingernails was from Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr.. After telling a judge they were deadlocked,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Mike Kehoe has won the Missouri governor’s race by edging out Democrat Crystal Quade. Voters promoted the lieutenant governor in Tuesday’s election. He told supporters after his victory that he would get to work fighting crime as soon as he’s sworn in. He will succeed GOP Gov.
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Election night results from the Riverside County Office of the Registrar of Voters are slated to be posted hourly, following the first tabulation of ballots, which should be completed by 8:20 p.m., officials said today. Click here for local election results “The initial results will encompass vote-by-mail and unscanned vote center ballots received prior to
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